Male students wearing traditional red tarboush (Tarbouche) caps sit at school desks during a lesson at an Al-Azhar affiliated religious school in Qena, Upper Egypt. A teacher dressed in a traditional galabiya stands at the front of the classroom beside a chalkboard with Arabic writing. Al-Azhar schools are part of Egypt's centuries-old Islamic educational system, combining religious and academic curricula under the authority of Al-Azhar institution, one of the oldest centers of Islamic learning in the world.